Ayatollah Hermione 12767 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 If me and you can do the couch to 5k twice in 48 hours then a young super fit athlete should be ok. I think a game of professional football is a bit more taxing on the body than your turbo-waddle around the streets of East Boldon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8994 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 If me and you can do the couch to 5k twice in 48 hours then a young super fit athlete should be ok. You realise it's stuff like this that confirms that you know fuck all about top flight football. You didn't even have the sense to hide behind your favourite smiley face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Newcastle manager Alan Pardew says if he wasn't serving a touchline ban, he could have "stopped" the winning goal in his side's 2-1 defeat to Swansea. No ego Alan AHAA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4223 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 You realise it's stuff like this that confirms that you know fuck all about top flight football. You didn't even have the sense to hide behind your favourite smiley face. Nah man, football is a purely physical exercise that requires only that you can run the distance needed in a game. Thats why all the best players are the fittest ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 You realise it's stuff like this that confirms that you know fuck all about top flight football. So 6 years of posting and thousands of posts yet this is what confirms it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30434 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Newcastle manager Alan Pardew says if he wasn't serving a touchline ban, he could have "stopped" the winning goal in his side's 2-1 defeat to Swansea. No ego Alan AHAA! Sounds like something Uri Geller would say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8994 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Nah man, football is a purely physical exercise that requires only that you can run the distance needed in a game. Thats why all the best players are the fittest ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8994 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 So 6 years of posting and thousands of posts yet this is what confirms it for you. I never said I was a quick learner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 The fall and rise of Alan Pardewby ChicagoAddick on November 18, 2011 Like 99.9% of all Charlton fans I was as pleased as punch when the club announced late on Christmas Eve in 2006 that Alan Pardew was joining to become our new manager and thus putting us out of the Les Reed misery. Reed’s short spell in charge was a disaster and in my mind Pardew had done good things at Reading and was unfortunate to lose a political game at Upton Park a fortnight previous, and the Hammers loss was our gain. Pardew was welcomed with open arms and he then proceeded to take us a rollercoaster of emotion. Who can forget the West Ham game or the comeback at Watford and of course the poignant final home game against Tottenham before we finally succumbed to relegation after losing just 7 of Pardew’s 19 games in charge. We all blamed Dowie, and we proudly dusted ourselves down and looked forward to watching a Championship promotion party a year later. Pardew instilled belief and pride in those first six months and we all bought in to it. But then it all went wrong and somehow he then proceeded to completely dismantle the club’s soul and helped by a weak board Pardew’s ego became out of control as were allegedly some of his off-field antics. Despite being hero worshipped at The Valley in that first year, it became obvious he thought Charlton was below him, an interesting jactitation, as his man management skills started to resemble David Brent. Like a small scab, Pardew picked at it and picked at it trying to make it better but only making things a whole lot worse until fan power forced him out, his grubby little hands clasping a cheque made out for £1.5m as he drove his Bentley out of the Valley gates. Southampton were next for Pardew, brought in by the late Markus Liebherr. After Liebherr died Pardew relationship with his new boss, the outspoken Nicola Cortese, was always on a crash course and sure enough within a few months he was gone but not after he had signed almost a new team.Pardew left St Mary’s with another big cheque in his hand. In December last year, one of his mates and the head of the unofficial Cockney Mafia, Mike Ashley surprised and further dismayed Geordies by giving Pardew a five and half year contract, but not before he was castigated for some unwise words on BBC’s MOTD2. Today West Ham, Charlton, Southampton and Newcastle all sit in the top three of their respective divisions with some media types talking about Pardew as a possible next England manager. Pardew’s Newcastle are expected to lose their first game of the season tomorrow, but is Pardew any good? These are some questions I’ve been asking myself recently: What would West Ham’s fans do for a Premier League club again? Would Pardew have got Charlton relegated like his replacement did winning just 2 of the 21 games after Pardew was sacked. How many Southampton players that were signed by Pardew are now showcasing their talents at the top of the Championship under Nigel Adkins and how the flying fcuk is that smug git now managing a Premier League team sat 3rd in the table and still unbeaten? Pardew is an extremely self confident individual who came to the glamour of professional football late but to me represents everything that is wrong with English football’s new money. I often hear that because of his non-league background he brings old fashioned principles to clubs, well I’m not so sure Richard Murray would agree. What Pardew does bring is a circus but there are few bigger and sillier circuses than at St James Park, sorry Sports Direct Arena. Maybe this has helped him up in the north-east and he was so unwanted when he first showed up that he had to show some humility, which I don’t think comes easy. What has always come easy however is his ability to say the right things to get supporters on side. Dowie may have had his PowerPoint presentation but Pardew has a well honed collection of patter. Pardew is talented as a coach no doubt and many people in the game hold him in high regard, Chris Powell is one but what is pretty apparent is that he needs to be ruled with an iron fist and his ego and access to the purse strings need to be kept well in check. I am not convinced that Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias are the men to do that but the Geordies lack of cash has at least halted Pardew’s mostly unnecessary raids into the transfer market. Pardew at times reminded me of one of those determined shoppers barging into Harrods swing doors on New Year’s Day waving (someone else’s) cheque book! Pardew though wasn’t always shopping in Harrods, at least when he was with us! Whether Pardew is obsequious enough to have learnt from his mistakes, we will have to wait and see but one thing is for certain though, trouble is never far away and he won’t help but fall over himself at some point and there will be plenty of obstacles in his way at Newcastle United. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 This put Pardew under pressure going into the 2008–09 season but Charlton started the season off well with victories over Reading and Swansea. However, Charlton's form very quickly deteriorated and they were near the foot of the table after 8 games without a win. After an inept display in a 5–2 home defeat to Sheffield United hundreds of supporters remained for more than an hour to condemn their manager, chanting, "We want Pardew out" and "We want our club back" after Charlton had slipped into the Championship's bottom three.[18][19] On 22 November 2008, Pardew parted company with Charlton by mutual consent.[20] AHAA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14055 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Remarkable use of the word "jactitation" there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Sounds like something Uri Geller would say. Urine Pardgeller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Looks like wherever he's been they're pleased to see the back of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Imagine there's no football.It's easy if you try.No cards in St James's Park,Above us only facebook.Imagine all the people,Have turned against you...You may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only one.Cisse is a winger and so is Sissoko Everyone who can run a bit is a winger.. I tell you it is so... Oh yeah, I'll tell you something,I think you'll understand.When I'll say that something,I want to hold your hand,I want to hold your hand,I want to hold your hand.Oh please, say to me,You'll let me attack down the wings.And please, say to me,You'll let me love the sound of silence.Now let me hold your hand,I want to hold your hand.Imagine there's no football.It's easy if you try.No twitter in St James's Park,Above us only facebook.Imagine all the people,Imagine all the people.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38781 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Remarkable use of the word "jactitation" there. Certainly roused me from my hypnagogic stupor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 http://www.song-lyrics-generator.org.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14605 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 (edited) The likes of HF & sackpardew.com outed as football agents, possibly operating from Austrailia http://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/sport/brown-backs-under-fire-pardew-23868/ Edited September 23, 2014 by PaddockLad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19826 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Sack Hughton when he's doing a good job after getting us promoted at first time of asking. Retain Pardew after months of shit results and performances. Mike Ashley logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30434 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 The rumours were that Pardew was lined up for weeks while the club picked a suitable moment to sack Hughton. Which is another reason not to feel sorry for him. The reason I believe the rumours is because they were circulating weeks before he got the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6434 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Can anyone see some clever, strategic, near unfathomable reason why Ashley might tolerate relegation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14605 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 They'd closed the book the weekend we twatted the tramps 5-1. Hughton went a month later the next time we lost iirc. Rumours for weeks that Pardew was coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 (edited) Can anyone see some clever, strategic, near unfathomable reason why Ashley might tolerate relegation? Possibly to piss the fans off I honestly think if we were relegated again Ashley would try to sell NUFC. I dont think there's the same spirit in this team as there was with Barton Nolan Carroll etc to bounce straight back up. Edited September 23, 2014 by trooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 They'd closed the book the weekend we twatted the tramps 5-1. Hughton went a month later the next time we lost iirc. Rumours for weeks that Pardew was coming. I said for years he was setting us up to be a yo-yo team. Not sure if that's the case now. Relegation cost him personally £30m last time around. We're now a club that will make £30m profits before player trading, so perhaps he doesn't mind relegation as long as the club can cover it. But i'm not sure what the parachute payment is these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Each club is currently paid £24m in the first year back in the Championship, £19.2m in year two, £9.6m in year three and another £9.6m in the final year. Premier League clubs believe three years is more than enough time to adjust to life outside the top flight and intend to trim a year from the current schedule after negotiations with the Football League. That would mean £30m in year one. Double what we got in 2010, while wages are at least £10m less than they were when we went down last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 6 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 The rumours were that Pardew was lined up for weeks while the club picked a suitable moment to sack Hughton. Which is another reason not to feel sorry for him. The reason I believe the rumours is because they were circulating weeks before he got the job. I'm pretty sure someone posted in here in September, nearly a month before it happened. I know Keegan let slip he was interviewed and accepted the Man City job the day before Joe Royle was sacked, so it may just be part of the business. We had some mixed results, so Ashley may have made the decision and was just snookered for timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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